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Elevating Your Role As An Executive Assistant

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Evolving into an indispensable ally to your executive requires a blend of skills, dedication, and a proactive approach. This gives you an overview of the whole category of technology tools, the expertise to speak to specific programs and how you use them, and then the confidence to learn a new program within that category when needed.

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Professional vs Personal Development: What’s the Difference?

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To navigate these dynamic landscapes with confidence, one must recognize the need for ongoing skill enhancement and adaptability. Those skill sets are where every human being has to start if they ever want to have any form of lasting success in their life.” The synergy between the two is where the magic happens.

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What’s Next to Be Your Best? 3 Personal and Professional Development Trends in 2024

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Not only do personal and professional development opportunities provide key benefits to employees—like learning new skills, boosting confidence and credibility, developing leadership skills and increasing earning potential—but employers greatly benefit too. Why are human skills important?

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Humor in the Workplace: How to Be Funny at Work Without Crossing the Line

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Humor is a mindset that can be developed by forming new habits. Maintain your confidence and don’t go fishing for compliments “We can find humor in our pain points and struggles. Start by collecting and consuming funny books, podcasts, movies, YouTube videos, etc. It endears people to us as long as we do it right.

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12 Personal Goals to Set For Yourself This Year

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By increasing your skills and proficiency in various ways, you’re paving the road to succeed in your current role and in whatever future positions you hold. Learn a new skill Learning new skills at work makes you more adaptable and can boost your confidence. A large part of communicating is learning how to listen.

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What Is a Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset?

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A fixed mindset is one that assumes a person’s habits, preferences, skills and even longings are fixed, perhaps even innate. This mindset restrictively inhibits people from self-improvement and learning new skills. After all, if our skills and intelligence are fixed, then why even try to improve? Our self-talk.

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Is shorthand still a relevant skill for a minute taker?

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It was a very handy skill to have! … They would’ve thought that this would be a must have skill to be able to take minutes. Typing the minutes onto the laptop saves an incredible amount of time – if you’re writing your minutes in any form you’re double handling the information! But now a dying art. I would disagree.

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